Example, you use a simple java swing text box to input some data. Then a new revision of java comes out and boom the text box gets new capabilies such as auto-fill or spell check.
This exact scenario happened in one particular touch screen voting system in which the windows CE form boxes would remember the previous use of the form and fill it it. Unfortutaley it was filling it in with the previous voter's vote! But it wasn't that the software designer overlooked this. When the software is written it did n
"The user interface is designed using HTML/JavaScript and rendered using integrated Chromium (Google's open-source project) based browser"
'nuf said. Surely there are more wrong things wrong with that...
"The user interface is designed using HTML/JavaScript and rendered using integrated Chromium (Google's open-source project) based browser"
'nuf said. Surely there are more wrong things wrong with that...
Collecting passwords in a browser form field is fairly common, and not wrong.
Spellchecking passwords? With a third party service? Sending in cleartext? Yeah, that's screwy ...
Psword123
Did you mean "Password123"
A system of made-up currency run by any number of idiots in their virtual garages is shady? What? How could this possibly be?
Example, you use a simple java swing text box to input some data. Then a new revision of java comes out and boom the text box gets new capabilies such as auto-fill or spell check.
This exact scenario happened in one particular touch screen voting system in which the windows CE form boxes would remember the previous use of the form and fill it it. Unfortutaley it was filling it in with the previous voter's vote!
But it wasn't that the software designer overlooked this. When the software is written it did n